The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-12

earthly emigrants. Surely the Christian
at death does not loose his memory. Then
there must be millions Of souls in Heaven
who know Coronation" and "Antioch,"
and ''Mount Pisgah," and "Old Hundred"
The leader Of the eternal orchestra need
only once tap his baton and all Heaven
will be ready for the hallelujah.
Can not the soul sing? How often we
compliment some exquisite singing by say
ing: "There was so much soul in her
music" In Heaven it will be all soul un-
til the body after awhile comes up In the
resurrection, and then there will be an ad-
ditional heaven. Can not the soul hearf
If it can hear, then it can hear music. Do
not, therefore let it be in your household
when some member leaves for Heaven, as
it is in some households, that you close
the piano and unstring the harp for two
years, because the fingers that used to
play on them are still. You must remem-
Der that they have better instruments of
music where they are.
You ask me: "Do they have real harps,
and real trumpets, and real organsS" do
not know. Some wiseacres say positively
there are no such things in Heaven. / do
not know; but l should not be surprised il
the God who made all the mountains, and
all the hills, and all the forests, and all
the metals of the earth, and all the
growths of the universe should not be
surprised if He could, if He had a mind
to, AXE a few harps, and trumpets, and
organs.
Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out,
was carried for the last time into the music
hall, and there he heard his own oratorio
Uf the "Creation." History says that as
the orchestra came to that famous passage,
'Let there be Light" the whole audience
rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his
hand toward Heaven and said: SIT came
from there" Overwhelmed with his own
music, he was carried out in his chair, and
as he came to the door he spread his hand
toward the orchestra as in benediction.
Haydn was right when he waved his
hand toward Heaven and said: att comes
from there" Music was born in Heaven,
and it will ever have it's highest throne in
Heaven; and / want you to understand
that our departed friends who were pas
sionately fond of music here are now at the
headquarters of harmony. I think that the
grand old church tunes that died when
your grandfathers died have gone with
them to Heaven.
Again, remark that those Of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this world
had very strong military spirit are
now in armies celestial and out on
b1oodless bs tiles. There are hun
dreds of people born soldiers. They
can not help it. Thew belong to regiments
in time of peace. They can not hear a
drum or fife without irving to keep step to
the music. They are Christians, and when
they fight they fight on the right side. Now
when these, our Christian friends who had
natural and powerful military spirit, en-
tered Heaven they entered the celestial
army.
The door of Heaven hardly opens bCt
you hear military demonstration. David
cried out: f'The chariots of God are tventy
thousand" Elisha saw the mountains Ai'ed
with celestial cavalry. st. John said:
''The armies which are in Heaven followed
him on white horses" Now, when those
who had the military spirit on earth sane
titled entered Glory, [ suppose they right
away enlisted in SOME Heavenly campaign;
the volunteered right away. There must
needs be in Heaven soldiers with a soldier
~ spirit. There are grand parade DAYS
when the King reviews the troops. There
must be armed escort sent out to bring up
from earth to Heaven those who were
more than conquerors. There must be
crusades ever being fitted out for some
part of Gods dominions-battles. blood
less, Rroanless, painless. Angels of evil
to be fought down and fought back Other
rebellious worlds to be conquered. Worlds
to be put to the torch. Worlds to be
saved. Worlds to be demolished. Worlds
But what are our mathematical friends
to do in the next world? They found their
Joy and their delight in mathematics.
There was more poetry for them in Euclid
than in John Milton. They were as pas
sionately fond of mathematics as Plato,
who wrote over his door: "Let no one
enter here who is not acquainted with
geometry" What are they doing now2
They are busy with figures yet. No place
In a1T be
Numbers infinite, distances infinite, calcu-
lations infinite. The didactic DR.. Dick
said he really thought that the redeemed
in Heaven spent some of their time with
the higher branches of mathematics.
Some of our transferred and transported
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. What are they doing
now? Studying the human mind, only
under better circumstances than they
used TO study it. They used TO study the
mind sheathed in the dull human
| body. Now the spirit is unsheath-
ed-now they are studying the sword out
side the scabbard. Have you any doubt
about what Sir William Hamilton is doing
in Heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is
doing in Heaven, OF the multitudes on
earth who had a passion for metaphysics
| sanctified by the grace of God? No diff
Guilty in guessing. Metaphysics, glorious
| metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing now2 Exploring
| yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescope at the
same time. A continent at a glance. A
world in a second. A planetary system in
| a day. Christian John Franklin no more
| in disabled Erebus pushing toward the
! North Pole, Christian De Long no
more trying to free blockaded Jeanette
| from the ice. Christian Livingstone
no more amid African malarias trying
to make revelation of dark continent
/ but all of them in the twinkling Of an eve
| taking in that which was unapproachable.
Mont Blanc scaled without aipenstock.
| The coral depth Of the ocean explored
without diving bell TIE mountains un-
| barred and opened without Sir Humphrey
| Davy's safety lamp.
What are our departed friends who found
! their chief Joy in study doing nowY Study
| ing yet, but instead Of a few thousand
volumes on few shelves, oil the volumes
| of the universe open before them-geologic,
ornithologic, conchologic, botanic, astrono-
mic, philosophic. No more need Of Leyden-
| jars, or voltaic piles, or electric batteries,
standing as they do face to face with the
| facts Of the universe.
! What are the historians doing nowi
/ Studying history yet, but not the history
| Of few centuries Of cur planet only, but
/ the history of the eternities-wboie mil
/ lenniums before Xenophon, or Hor0d otus.
! or Moses, OF Adam was born. History OF
| one world, history Of an world.
What are our departed astronomers do
/ ingT Studying astronomy yet, but not
| through the dull lens Of earthly observa-
| tory, but witn one stroke og wing going
| right out 20 Jupiter, and Mars, and Mer-
| cuTy, and Saturn, and Orion, and the
| Pleiades-overtakng and passing swiftsst
comet in their fight. Herschel died q
| Christian. Have you any doubt
about what Herschel is doing!
/ Tsaac Navsytor dfed "A Christian